
Question 7
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**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**
From one kiss comes a chain reaction - a masterpiece of memoir from the winner of the Baillie Gifford and the Booker prize
'Extraordinary' Sarah Perry
'Masterpiece' Colm Toibin
'Wholly original. I absolutely loved it' David Nicholls
'A brilliant, brilliant book' James Rebanks
By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair, through 1930s nuclear physics, to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima, this chain of events culminates in a young man finding himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die...
'The strangest and most beautiful memoir I've ever read. Magnificent' Tim Winton
'Flanagan's finest book... A brilliant meditation on the past of one man and the history that coalesced in his existence' Guardian
'Flanagan's portrayal of his quiet, brave father and his loving, resilient mother is exquisite. His evocation of the texture of life in rural Tas-mania is masterful' Daily Telegraph
'A beautiful, unclassifiable novel-cum-memoir... That it is a masterpiece is without question' Observer
'Sometimes a book is an experience felt almost in the body... A celebration of all life, it is also a reckoning with the 20th century... It is intimate, beautiful, unsparing and profound' Anna Funder
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'This book took me completely by surprise and is unlike anything I've read this year. Gripping, affecting, wholly original. I absolutely loved it' * David Nicholls, author of One Day * A work of non-fiction...but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel... Question 7 sets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be * Sunday Times * 'Irresistible. . . . What Flanagan achieves so well is locating what is intimately human within his grand sweep. . . . The attention he pays is tender without ever sacrificing the sharpness of his gaze' * Chris Power, New York Times Book Review * 'Question 7 is the greatest memoir of parents and place I have read - and this is hardly to touch on its originality. I was amazed by its intense moral and emotional rigour, its power of compassion, the strength and beauty of the prose. I would take it up, read a page, sometimes just a paragraph, and find I had to set it down, dazed, to think about every word and idea before I could even begin to go on. Devastating and beautiful, mighty in its rage and tenderness: his most momentous book yet' * Laura Cumming, author of Thunderclap * 'We believe we make choices in our lives, yet what explodes in these pages is the way in which the fiercest and strongest response we can make to the forces that threaten to destroy us is to surrender to love' * Julia Samuel, author of Grief Works * There's so much...in Flanagan's beautiful, unclassifiable novel-cum-memoir... That it is a masterpiece is without question * Observer * 'Question 7 is written with a spectacular mixture of fierce energy and then control, care. It is a kind of reckoning, Richard Flanagan with his father and his mother, Tasmania with its past, Japan with its past, the author with himself. It seems to me a book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers. It certainly did on me' * Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn * Excellent...Flanagan is unfailingly good company * Daily Mail * 'Richard Flanagan's Question 7 is a profoundly moving love song for the writer's parents, a forensic excavation, a lament, a confession, a jig-saw puzzle in which Hiroshima connects to HG Wells, and the Martians colonise Tasmania. We are all competitive, of course, so this is not an easy thing to say: but Question 7 may just be the most significant work of Australian art in the last 100 years' * Peter Carey, author of True History of The Kelly Gang * Flanagan's portrayal of his quiet, brave father and his loving, resilient mother is exquisite. His evocation of the texture of life in rural Tas-mania is masterful... Flanagan is unfailingly good company * Daily Telegraph, 4* review *More details
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